A majority of the suspected LSI women posted, I have always admired the strength of. Now I understand why. They are incredibly beautiful. I adore Catherine Zeta Jones, and have always been drawn to her.

Albert Pierrepoint was, by far, Britain's most prolific hangman. Between 1934 and 1956, he executed more than 400 men and women, among them Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, Derek Bentley, Lord Haw-Haw (the wartime traitor William Joyce) and John George Haigh, the acid bath murderer. He put to death Timothy Evans, wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and subsequently John Christie, the real killer. He hanged large numbers of Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg trials, including Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen, and Irma Grese, the cruellest woman concentration camp guard of them all. These two were among 13 he executed on the same day.

The man behind the noose, doing the job that his father and his uncle had performed before him, believed, in his own words, "that I was chosen by a higher power for the task which I took up, that I was put on this earth especially to do it".